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Paris hosts Frida Kahlo show through the eyes of her friend Lucienne Bloch

Paris, Feb 8 (EFE) .- (Camera: Mario García / Martí Rodríguez) A passionate kiss between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is one of the outstanding images of the unpublished exhibition of 25 photographs taken by the painter Lucienne Bloch during the Mexican artist's stay in New York in 1930.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE GALERIE L'INSTANT.SOUNDBITES OF JULIA GRAGNON, OWNER OF THE GALLERY. Translation:-"Lucienne Bloch was a painter. She met Frida and Diego because she became Diego Rivera's assistant to learn how to paint murals. But she was not a photographer. For her, they were family photos, they were photos of life. It was not a report, she did not even a commission on Frida Kahlo."- "I had seen in New York a great exhibition about her in which they presented her clothes, her jewelry, her makeup, her corsets ... And next to the clothes on mannequins there were photos of Frida and there was the one at the entrance from the gallery, which I call 'My Frida'. And when I came back to Paris, I posted it on Instagram. And the granddaughter wrote to me and said: 'I'm very proud to see the photos of my grandmother traveling to France. It's wonderful. Thank you. 'Afterward, I didn't let her go anymore. We quickly talked about an exhibition project."- "And I'm really very surprised to see how many people appreciate this person and come from other places. When they come they say: 'I'm going to see the Frida exhibition.' It's not Frida Kahlo. As if it were someone they knew."